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"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." -Wernher von Braun (B.1912-D.1977, rocket scientist)

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Deposited here in this plantary host body at an early age by a vastly superior intelligence, it was originally my assigned task as a junior member of the galactic intelligence survey team to study the inhabitants of this savagely exciting place and report back my findings and observations on the ostensibly 'highest evolved intelligent life form' found on Planet Earth. Regrettably and inexplicably, I appear to have been abandoned to my own devices by my fellows in the interim. Accordingly, I pass the time and divert myself by jotting down my impressions of the indigenous sentient biological life forms (populating this planet) solely for my own amusement. It recently occurred to me that some of you Sapiens of the Homo genus might also find them bemusing (possibly even illuminating?), hence you shall find a few of my reflections on Earth life here. By some happy coincidence, I have found that setting my thoughts down in words to be one of the most refreshingly effective forms of psychotherapy available to an outworlder like myself. If I had to rely upon direct communications with the rudimentarily evolved 'human beings' I circulate among for personal social fulfillment (and understanding of their lives), I'd probably have long since turned into a puddle of insensate protoplasmic slag. Klatu barata nicto!



Accomplishments: Given the extreme difficulty implicit in trying to translate my many intergalactic accomplishments and achievements into a meaningful Earth language, I shall instead modestly say that on my home planet I am widely regarded by my transgalactic peers with all the sublime respect an earth person would accord to a particularly virulent strain of amoebic dysentary. This is a high honor among my own kind, of course, but I think it somewhat ironic to find that since most earthlings have the mean intelligence quotient of an amoeba's older and slightly smarter brothers, I am in perfectly lovely company here on the Planet Earth. What an absolutely happy and totally unexpected coincidence!

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LIFE EXPERIENCE: Occasional hot dates with 30,000 pound hunks of screaming Mach 2+ aircraft aluminum (NASA N819NA and USAF 59-0010), charter member of the exclusive '11 Mile High Club', former medical attendent to HRH King Fahad (now deceased) and Saudi Oil Minister Zaki Yamani, failed contender in 'World's Worst Fiction' contest, runner-up in the 'International Apallingly Atrocious Writing Competition', legend in my own mind, world's absolute worst surfer (excepting Buster Keaton), and periodic resident of the Molokai Institute for the Creatively Challenged (Hawaii). Professional egregious writer and published author (of undistinguished mediocrity).

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AWARDS: Winner of the 2001 Hunter S. Thompson Perpetual Trophy for Addled Existentialist Journalism. Failed contender for the John Steinbeck Foundation Award for Plagiaristic Cleverness (2007). Recipient of a grant from the National Venezuelan Beaver Cheese Industrial Board Merit Colloquium (1987) for curdling milk with Marxist inspired revolutionary poetry. Member Emeritus of the Ordure of Opposable-Thumb Knights of Culturally Dubious Literary Opprobrium (vested 1992). Failed candidate for the Allan C. Weisbecker writing award for Quantum Surf Mechanics Theory Applications (2008). (For more background on this last high honor, visit: http://www.aweisbecker.com/background/ )

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OUR MAXIM: "Dios, me libre de un hombre de uno libro!" (trans: "God deliver me from a man of one book!") -attributed to Don Miguel de Cervantes
     



Books

U S Chemical and Biological Defense Respirators by Kalikiano Kalei
An illustrated developmental history of the American military chemical and biological protective respirator for use against war agents, this work provides photographs of actual respirator specimens and several useful appendices, in addition to its engaging chapters. A perfect coffee table book to thoroughly confuse and depress your unwanted drop-in proletarian visitors (perhaps even send them scre...
  

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Short Stories

Searching For Haumea...
 by Kalikiano Kalei
I have always believed that if there is a God, that indefinable omniscience must have a feminine spirit. Human nature being what it is, and given the extreme range of understanding, development, and i...


Zipping Flies with Papa Hemingway
 by Kalikiano Kalei
This is a true story about 'Papa' Ernest Hemingway, culled from the many conflicting tidal currents of my varigated life, prior to becoming an orfink and subsequently (thereafter) a born-again Hawai...


Maile and the Little Green Menehune
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Hawaii is the ultimate melting pot, if you'll permit use of that archaic, late 19th Century term in place of the more modern and politically correct counterpart, 'diversity'. Although Hawaii today ...


Saddam's Toilet, Part 1
 by Kalikiano Kalei
A story of the 1991 Middle Eastern Gulf War, based upon real events and real people, with names and identities changed to protect the participants. This is part one of three....


A White Raven
 by Kalikiano Kalei
As the ancient sailors once avowed on their long ocean journies to the ends of the Earth, "There be monsters here". Monsters, or simply unexplained phenomena? All things are strange and mysterious unt...


Saddam's Toilet, Part 2
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Part two of a three part story that takes place in the 1991 Middle Eastern Gulf War time frame. Real events, real people, names and identities changed to protect the shameless. After all, war is hell....


Farewell to Sherlockville
 by Kalikiano Kalei
This is a fragment of a narrative written many years ago, while resident on the Santa Cruz coastal area west of Watsonville (Sunset State Beach). It doesn't pretend to be anything other than part of ...


Down in the Valley--Chapter 1
 by Kalikiano Kalei
It's tough to grow up a smart kid in a community of ignorant little delinquents, but it's even tougher to get a grip on fulfilling that reputation for intelligence when saddled with ADD. When I was ...


First Class, or Guaranteed Delivery?
 by Kalikiano Kalei
The US Postal Service is frequently the butt of jokes about bureaucratic snarls, tangles, and chaotic confusion. Let me be the first to assure you that, as bad as it may seem, the USPS has absolutely ...


Saddam's Toilet, Part 3
 by Kalikiano Kalei
The final part of this tripartite story of the 1991 Middle Eastern Gulf war. It helps here to recall Danish Composer Carl Nielsen's memorable quote: “Patriotism has become a spiritual syphilis that d...


The Fruitcake King of Riyadh
 by Kalikiano Kalei
For many the 'F-word' is a scatological ejaculation that while typically serving as a salty expression of extreme irritation, refers to a certain act of vigorous physical procreative interaction amo...


The Point of It All
 by Kalikiano Kalei
All of human life is unending chaos and storm, interspersed with brief moments of calm. The belief that there is absolute good in the world depends upon one's subjective interpretation of the histori...


A Story of Kauhuhu, the Shark God of Molokai
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Ancient Hawaiians worshipped many different gods, all of which populated their animistic pantheon of deities. According to Hawaiian custom, some of these gods would assume the form of a particular ani...


Rabbit Moon, Tiger Moon
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Long before the wealthy discovered the lovely coastal enclave of the Pebble Beach Golf & Country Club on California's Carmel coast, the early Chinese pioneers of the 1850s Gold Rush era settled there...


The Doodah Room
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Towards the end of Gulf War 1, on February 26 & 27th of 1991, a lengthy column of Iraqis irregulars and civilians fled from the advancing Coalition Forces on the highway connecting Kuwait City and Bas...


The First (Near) Ascent of Heartbreak Hill
 by Kalikiano Kalei
A fragment of a story, never continued, drawn from real life in Santa Cruz, California ('Surf City', or one of 'em, anyway). Sister Julie, may you rot in the lowest level of Dante's Inferno for et...



Poetry

Haumea's Rainbow
 by Kalikiano Kalei
I cannot explain this in too great a detail, for it is extremely personal and I am a hopelessly weak person who clings to the memory of rare goodness and pure love like any fool born into the sad, tra...


Love With Bilge-Pump
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Off with all thim jewels 'round yer purty neck, missie! We're wont ta bury thim somewheres in the Adriatic (or is it the Baltic?...or the Agean?...or the Caribbean?...oh, the hell with it!...ji...


Le Petite Ballet de Dauguey Dieu
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Each day I accompany my furry companions on their outtings to the local park. As most of you know, dogs will not usually relieve themselves without some sort of strong odoriferous stimulus--usually th...


The Perfect Wave
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Surfing can be a fearful, frightening activity or it can be a wildly liberating experience, depending substantially upon our subjective quotient of personal courage and how inertially challenging the ...


Requiem for a Departed Friend
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Very few things beat the adrenal rush of having your ass blasted across the skies at twice the speed of sound in a turbojet powered, delta-winged interceptor, although passionate sex can come close. A...


The Man in the Gray Suit
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Australian surfers call sharks 'the man in the gray suit'. Surfers, almost by unspoken consensus, typically do not discuss the danger that sharks pose to those on boards. Although the chances of bei...


An Encounter with Cycle Grrrrryl!
 by Kalikiano Kalei
If I believed in a God, I'd also be compelled to believe that the times when my supremely over-bearing male confidence takes a substantial hit were attributable to my being taught a lesson in humilit...


A Chinaman's Chance
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Diversity, so common wisdom has it, is America's greatest blessing. Long study of human beings and their seemingly infinite capability to inflict the most savage cruelty upon other members of their r...


Centurion
 by Kalikiano Kalei
As Dylan Thomas once famously stated, "Do not go gentle into that good night...". Aging, and the slow disintegration it entails, is the legacy of every living creature. Man, alone among all animals on...


Mythos Mysteriosa Feminina
 by Kalikiano Kalei
How to define the scent of color, the hues taken on by an aroma, the form a pure phantom of the mind assumes when it knows we are helpless to further define it? Denied to conventional understanding, u...


Off-handedly, Hiawatha
 by Kalikiano Kalei
The Hiawatha that Wordsworth's Minnehaha never got to know. Suggested by a wonderfully witty friend who has genuine literary talent (unlike moi). Sincere apologies to all my Native American brothers....


A Glint in Loki's Eye
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Man proposes, God disposes. Sometimes, despite the best laid plans of mice and mortals, anticipated seductions appear to run aground, fouled upon the hidden reefs of capricious, fickle kismet. This re...


Left Brain, Right Brain, Lower Brain
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Applied male intelligence, as associated with interactive gender liaisons is an oxymoronic concept. This demonstrably irrefutable fact has nevertheless never been documented as an obstacle of signific...


The Celtic Knot
 by Kalikiano Kalei
The blue shadows flit through tangles of darkened forest, silent shapes felt more than actually seen, as two great armies of the spirit draw near to render grave and violent harm to each other. Love i...


Flight of the Raptor
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Written in the early 90s while I was in the depths of the Arabian wilderness, I was in love with two things: fast airplanes and a certain dark-haired creature whom I would have marched off the ends of...


Ode to High-G Flight
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Today's modern high performance fighter aircraft can withstand more Gs than its human occupants and that's not factoring in the 'speed jeans', Valsalva 'grunting', 35 degree canted back ejection...


Love is a Two-Way Street
 by Kalikiano Kalei
A brilliantly amusing friend of mine once spent the better part of an hour, as we were all seated around a roaring fire at a ski lodge (waiting for the blizzard outside to lessen somewhat in intensity...


A Warm Puppy Pome (sic)
 by Kalikiano Kalei
There are few things in the world as thoroughly enjoyable as infant animals, including kittens, despite the following whimsy. Personally, I've always preferred puppies and kittens to little human inf...


Harsh Moon Over Riyadh
 by Kalikiano Kalei
The Autumn Moon Festival (zhōngqiūjié in Pinyin) dates back nearly 3000 years to the Zhou Dynasty of ancient China. A celebration of abundance and harvest completed, it is one of the two imp...


Rebirth
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Submerged in tender chasms of the softest female tissue or plunging deep into submarine canyons of unsounded oceanic depths, all coital mating, whether between a man and a woman, or between the earth ...


The Ocean's Dialogue with the Sea-Cave
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Love is many things to many people and to many species. To the Black Widow spider, love is eating one's mate. To the ocean, love is an eternity of deleriously wild dances with the stoic shores. ...


Falling Off the Mountain
 by Kalikiano Kalei
The allegorical mountain may be harder to climb and summit than any geophysical mass of volcanic or tectonic earthen crust. Sometimes, when the question is called high up on some ferociously tenuous p...


Cardiotomy
 by Kalikiano Kalei
To the cardiovascular surgeon, the term 'cardiac arrest' has unequivocably dire implications. To the hopeless romantic, the term may have an altogether different meaning, entirely. Prepare to scrub ...


Desert Haiku, For Ewe
 by Kalikiano Kalei
It seems to have been my fate to have been willingly bound into one of the most passionate relationships of my life amidst the vast wastes of one of the most religiously conservative nations on this p...


Oh, Obloquy!
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Это стихотворение не делает сове...



Articles

Molokai nui a Hina: Old Hawaii
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Most visitors to Hawaii who are on their first trip to the islands seem to think that Oahu's Waikiki glitz and glamor is the heart and soul of the island experience. What they are seeing and experien...


Supporting Life at 80,000 Feet:
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Space is inherently hostile to all biological life as we know it here on Earth. As aviators flew higher and higher into the rarified atmosphere that verges on space, it became necessary to develop pre...


Elvis Seen in Flying Saucer with Aliens....Again!
 by Kalikiano Kalei
I am a very open-minded individual who all too well understands the fact that there are possibilities well beyond our wildest imagination. That doesn't mean, however, that I am immediately drawn to m...


Rescue Me! (The 'rescue dog' learning curve)
 by Kalikiano Kalei
How many times have you thought about all those poor little doggies and kitties out there that lack adequate homes? How many times have you moved past the thoughtful reflection and actually adopted a ...


Mouse Interrupted: Re-Engineering Reality
 by Kalikiano Kalei
How often have you thought of Mickey Mouse as something other than a simple cartoon character or good old Uncle Walter (Disney) as something other than a kindly story teller whose chief intent is to k...


Hawaii: Through the Looking Glass
 by Kalikiano Kalei
A small exposition on the impact of manners and cultural etiquette among the ancient Hawaiians that will hopefully have you drawing many parallels to our modern American contemporary culture, with its...


Rell Sunn: Soul of the Aloha Spirit
 by Kalikiano Kalei
We all have heroes and heroines that inspire our lives. Individuals who by leading a noble life, have set examples for the rest of us to emulate. Here is one of mine. ...


This Merlot is an Ungrateful Bitch, Waiter...
 by Kalikiano Kalei
What does the Merlot varietal have in common with Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, or for that matter the obfuscation of intelligent reflection in direct proportion to the amount of Merlot consumed? Can t...


Hysterical Recreation or Historical Reenactment?
 by Kalikiano Kalei
One of the more modern forms of socially acceptable adult entertainment has become what we refer to as 'Historical Reenactment'. This involves the re-creation of various period military battles, cam...


Pi ka ihu, ha’u i ka makani
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Rage: an unchecked outpouring of extreme anger, usually released indirectly and inappropriately by some trigger that has merely served as a catalytic spark. No one is exempt from moments of stark, bla...


Remembering Laika, a space pioneer
 by Kalikiano Kalei
A memorial to the small, mixed-breed Russian dog who was sent into orbit around the Earth in the world's first artificial satellite (Sputnik-2 on 3 November 1957). ...


Battle of the Bulge: Jesus Hates Speedos!
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Ah yes, the ubiquitous 'Speedo' swimsuit that everybody loves to hate. Stay with us as we examine that irrational manifestation of heterosexual male gender insecurity in the following paragraphs. In...


Mad as a Hatter
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Who among us doesn't imagine ourselves on occasion to be things we truly know we are not, nor could ever actually be, no matter how hard we tried. The spirit of the 'Masquerade' lies dormant w...


Koa Kahiko: Random Thoughts on Militarism
 by Kalikiano Kalei
"Koa Kahiko" is Hawaiian for "Wise, ancient warrior". Regrettably, there usually isn't much wisdom in modern war, as perhaps Vietnam and Iraq illustrate more perfectly than most. On the small Hawaiia...


Cet Obscur Objet du Desir
 by Kalikiano Kalei
What does the phrase 'That obscure object of desire' bring to mind? Keep that thought in mind as we delve into this subject with the instinctual, unthinking, and enthusiastic ardor of two rutting do...


Ass Why Hod, Bruddah: Racism in Hawaii
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Racism is an ineradicable aspect of all ethnic cultures and civilisations on the planet; it is one of the most ancient human cultural characteristics. Consider Hawaii, that paradisical and ostensibly ...


Boy on a Dolphin: Flying the L-29 Delfin
 by Kalikiano Kalei
For those armchair aviators who want to avail themselves, the 'Right Stuff' experience is just a couple of hundred dollars away. Come along on a 30 minute training flight in the Czech Aero Vedochedy...


Hawaiian Sexuality and the 'Mahu' Tradition
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Transgendered and transexual individuals greatly disturb most God-fearing Christians, who believe that everything other than 'conventional' marital sex is a mortal sin. The ancient Hawaiians were no...


We're All Bozos on this Bus...
 by Kalikiano Kalei
We human beings have an overarchingly superior attitude about just how 'intelligent' our species is. The truth of the matter is that, as the old joke has it, 'There's no intelligent life on earth'...


Localism in Hawaii: A Search for Respect
 by Kalikiano Kalei
"Locals only" is a phrase commonly used at surfing spots both in Hawaii and on the mainland. It may be interpreted as a desire for identity, respect, and a sense of belonging: qualities that are as ol...


Quantum Physics and Hawaiian Huna...
 by Kalikiano Kalei
How do quantum physics relate to ancient traditional Hawaiian spiritualism (known as Huna)? Or to time travel, worship of gods, and efforts to live a superior life? Stay tuned as we take a peek into t...


Knocking Heads with Honda Sensei
 by Kalikiano Kalei
This is an anecdotal account of a fate all Americans are doomed to suffer (sooner or later), as captives of the four-wheeled devil machine from hell known as the 'automobile'. Being a typical Calif...


A Brief History of the Russian MiG-15/17
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Prejudicially dismissed for decades as a 'second-class' product of the Russian aerospace industry, the famed Mikoyan-Gurevich 'MiG-15' jet fighter has only recently been historically rehabilitated...


NASA N819NA, 20 Years of Dryden Flight Research
 by Kalikiano Kalei
NASA N819NA is a Lockheed F-104B Starfighter, a two-seat version of one of the hottest fighter aircraft ever designed. Born right after the Korean War ended, this Mach 2+ member of the 'Century Serie...


Down the Rabbit Hole: The Arab Mind
 by Kalikiano Kalei
The primary reason America is presently suffering from a range of dire ills and economic misfortunes is because no one bothered to check the Arab mind to see if anyone was home before breaking down th...



News

Local Writer Not Slated to Receive Steinbeck Foundation Recognition
 by Kalikiano Kalei
Kalikiano Kalei, obscure and almost completely unknown author of little literary note and even lesser journalistic distinction, was recently not selected to receive the annual Steinbeck Foundation Awa...


Links



Aeolus Aerospace
The principal website at which some of my journalistic investigations in aerospace history and related concerns may be found.

Aerospace Museum of California (AMC)
Member of the Board of Directors, custodian of the museum's ex-NASA Lockheed F-104B Starfighter, and aerospace historian for life support and egress technology affairs.


Additional information

A few of my serious published works do exist (in the subject area of chemical and biological defense technology), but the material appearing in Authors' Den is presented largely for your amusement. Someone recently complimented me hugely by observing that my writing is proof that sitting a single extraterrestrial down in front of 100,000 PC keyboards will eventually produce a recognisably dirty 'adult story'. Much of my whimsical work is done on the lovely island of Molokai, in the Hawaiian Islands, where an occasional falling coconut serves to cathartically jolt my scattered cerebral neurons back into thoughtful realignment, where the he'e nalu is good, and where the lovely wahines are always eager to learn about advanced Tau Ceti reproductive techniques (when they aren't all studying the hula, under the tutelage of their kumus, that is). There is no truth at all to the assertion that my opinion of myself is so good that I regard myself as a mere hobby! All that having been guilelessly shared, be prepared to boldly go where endless trillions of Earthly mortals have noisily tramped before. Don't forget to have the conductor punch your banana for the return trip, and by all means, enjoy the journey as much as you can, since you can never leave the destination without changing form and substance in a manner wholly unknown to Earth science.

 
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